moonstricken (monstrik" n)

Same as moonstruck. Happily the moonstricken prince had gone a step too far. Brougham . moonstruck (mön's truk), a. Affected or regarded as affected in mind or health by the light of the moon; lunatic; crazed; dazed. Demoniac phrensy, moping melancholy, And moon - struck madne . Milton , P. L., xi. 486. A moonstruck , silly lad, who lost his way, And, like his bard, confounded night with day. Byron, Eng. Bards and Scotch Reviewers. Some of the transcendental Republican Germans were honest enough in their moon - struck theorizing. The Century , XXXVIII. 690. moon-trefoil (mön'trē foil), n. The tree-medic, Medicago arborea , a shrubby evergreen species, native in Italy, cultivated in gardens. It is said to increase the secretion of milk in cattle.